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19 - Translating Legal Texts

from Part IV - Translation in Practice: Factual Genres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

By
Łucja Biel
Edited by
Kirsten Malmkjær
Kirsten Malmkjær
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
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Summary

Chapter 19 maps the field of legal translation practice, research and training, beginning with an overview of the history of legal translation and its reorientation from literalness towards functional, receiver-oriented approaches which ensure equivalent effects and perceive legal translation as an act of legal communication. The chapter identifies the key characteristics of legal translation, both intersystemic and institutional, and discusses attempts to standardize legal translation by way of an ISO standard. It reviews key research trends and methods in legal translation studies, and outlines the competencies that legal translators need to acquire, suggesting how these can be developed.

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Legal practiceresearchtraininghistorycompetencescommunicationISOpedagogy
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The Cambridge Handbook of Translation , pp. 379 - 400
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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